Anatomy and Physiology of Hair

Your hair is one of the most important parts of your body. Hair is an outgrowth of filamentous cells, containing keratin, that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
The human body, apart from the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and fine vellus hair [...]

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Causes of Hair Loss

Introduction:
It is helpful to understand the hair growth and loss cycle before venturing into its causes. This cycle is one of the most fascinating aspects of the human body. The normal hair growth cycle lasts for nearly 2 to 3 years.
Each hair grows a centimeter per month in this phase. Ninety percent of hair on [...]

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Types of Hair Loss

Hair loss is clinically defined as alopecia. We can bracket most forms of hair loss under this generic term. The etymological origins of the word Alopecia can be traced from Middle English allopicia, to Latin alopecia, and finally to Greek alōpekia.

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Hair Loss Diagnosis

Hair loss is a gradual process where a person starts losing hair in patches or faces hair fall, hair thinning or premature baldness. The average scalp usually has 100,000 strands of hair of which it is normal to lose 75 – 150 strands daily. Anything more than this needs medical attention and treatment. Hair loss [...]

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Hair Loss Symptoms

Alopecia or baldness is when there is hair loss on the head and other parts of the body which often results in baldness. Losing between 75 – 150 strands of hair daily is normal but anything beyond this number is bad for hair loss. Hair loss is mainly caused due to two major reasons: Heredity [...]

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Treatments of hair loss

Hair provides the face with a beautiful frame. People often judge others on the basis of the color, style and length of their hair. Even their own self esteem and confidence is based on how presentable their hair is. Over the years, the hair has a strong impact on the perception that people have about themselves, so its every important to keep the hair and scalp healthy and choose the right treatment for hair loss.

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Psychological effects of hair loss

Hair loss has become a silent epidemic, with results that are not exactly fatal but prove to have a strong psychological impact on the well being of a person. People suffering from hair loss can suffer from loss self confidence, decreased self esteem, anxiety and depression. In cases of hair loss due to burn, some [...]

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Future hair loss treatments

Alopecia is disease of unpredictable prognosis. There are many medical and non medical hair loss treatments that have helped patients fight alopecia in the last decade. Thorough reviews of all the conventional and existing methods show that none of them show a long term, substantial improvement in arresting alopecia areata and regrowing lost hair. But [...]

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Hair loss FAQ’s

Is alopecia hereditary?
Ans. If the men in the family suffer from alopecia, there is a good chance of the sons and grandsons also encountering this disorder. There is no known cure for genetic hair loss, though living a healthy, stressful life may postpone the onset….

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